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Christmas Violence: Not an Aberration, but a Serious Warning

India, Jan. 5 -- Christmas violence against Christians in India has ceased to be an aberration. Christmas now functions as a yearly test of India's constitutional commitment to religious freedom-and i... Read More


A Helpless Prime Minister Amid Rising Attacks on Christians?

India, Jan. 5 -- In recent years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly reached out to India's Christian community. On several occasions, especially around Christmas, he has visited churches, ho... Read More


Can a Grand Alliance Offer a Credible Alternative?

India, Jan. 5 -- If the impotency that characterises the presence of key institutions of rural governance is anything to go by, it is abundantly clear that political considerations have prevailed over... Read More


2025: A Year of Diminishing Empathy and Growing Insensitivity and Injustice

India, Jan. 5 -- The end of a year offers individuals, institutions, nations, and the global community an opportunity for introspection and learning from the experiences of the past twelve months. Lif... Read More


Macaulay's Minute The Making of Modern India

India, Jan. 5 -- I have had a few occasions to visit the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, once at the invitation of the management to deliver the Christmas message. Those visits left a deep impr... Read More


Green Lungs Hold Their Breath

India, Jan. 5 -- The Aravalli Hills, the oldest fold mountain range in India and among the oldest on Earth, trace their origins to nearly two billion years ago. Once comparable in height to the Himala... Read More


The Illusion of Protection

India, Dec. 29 -- Religious festivals are meant to mark memory, joy, and belonging. In India today, they have become thresholds. Christmas, Easter, and even funerals now arrive with police, court peti... Read More


2025 Will Haunt the Indian Christian Community

India, Dec. 29 -- Not much hope was held for 2025, the 12th year of Mr Narendra Modi's powerfully personalised prime ministership, and the 100th year of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, his alma mater... Read More


VD Satheesan: A Politician Formed by the Word

India, Dec. 29 -- In an era when faith is often kept carefully outside the public square, VD Satheesan, Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Legislative Assembly, speaks of the Bible with an ease th... Read More


Christmas Without Fear Faith Beyond Flags and Frenzy

India, Dec. 29 -- For the first time in my life, I received several messages wishing me a safe Christmas. Not happy. Not merry. Safe. For seven decades, Christmas greetings in my life have come wrappe... Read More